At 02:09 16/1/01 -0500, Serge Knystautas wrote:
>There isn't any "industry standard" format that I know of for mail storage.
>Every mail server I've seen seems to store things a little different. You
>should be able to access the messages through the server directly. Any
>problems certain clients have experienced should be fixed by now (if not, we
>need to fix them).
There is an "industry standard" for email storage on file systems - MBOX
format. How collections of mail are stored is not-standardised thou if
thats what you mean (ie qmail uses multiple directories + a file per mail,
sendmail uses a single file etc)
Cheers,
Pete
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